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Christian Tradition Quiz 1 Flashcards

1
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Secularity is not anti-religion, but it is rather

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2 conflicting stories

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2
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What does Late Modern Secularity emphasize?

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Individual values

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3
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What does the Christian Tradition emphasize?

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Sacrifice, loving others, serving others, not always getting our way

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How is the secular age a haunted age?

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There are vestiges of faith everywhere, people want the feeling of transcendence they just don’t want to believe in God

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5
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What is Smith’s goal?

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To illuminate the modern secular age

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Definition of secular1

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Ancient understanding of secularity; deals with earthly things, not the divine (secular professions vs. sacred ones)

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Definition of secular2

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religiously neutral space with assumption that you can divide life and leave religion when entering some places (ex. public school)

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Definition of secular3

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Belief that God is 1 among many and whatever you want to believe is okay

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Definition of enchanted world

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people believed everything is charged with power; “things can do stuff”

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Definition of disenchanted world

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meaning comes from inside; “I do stuff”

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How does greek cosmology play a part in our beliefs today?

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It consists of the temporal and the eternal world; What is most true about the world is in the eternal because it is unchanging. (Plato’s forms)

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Cogito ergo sum

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I think, therefore I am

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13
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T/F Biblical writers believed we wouldd have an eternal soul

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F; that has been influenced by Greek cosmology

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14
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Ancient view of reality

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The Divided lIne; Immanentization collapses the eternal into the temporal

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t/f without transcendence, reality collapses into radical sameness

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T; and God becomes a condiment and we start making our own meaning

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16
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Keeping God as an idea bc we like him that way, but not in our lives is an example of

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Deism

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T/F secularity is the same as atheism

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F; secularity isn’t committed to the philosophical reality of a metaphysical world

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18
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De-personalizing God

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excarnation

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19
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personalizing God

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incarnation

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20
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T/F Without transcendence, we have to create meaning for ourselves

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T

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21
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2 ways to live in a secular age

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Take

Spin

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22
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view of a world that takes itself seriously but can function in the presence of other systems

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Take

23
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Something that can function only in the totality of its own view of the world and disproves of others; fundamentalists

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Spin

24
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People with this view of the world demand that the world work only according to logic and see transcendence as a threat to their worldview

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Closed Spin

25
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T/F conversion to an open system is based on feeling, not argumentation

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T

26
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work of people; things we do regularly

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Liturgy

27
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When does peter gain his ID?

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When he joins the liturgy of NL (insult war)

Joins after being encouraged by the community

28
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When does Peter get to join the feast in NL?

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When he joins the liturgy; you can’t just see the beauty of the CT until you practice it

29
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What is B’s liturgy?

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Discipleship

30
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Cheap Grace v. Costly Grace

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Cheap: being in it, but not seeing its true beauty
Costly: working hard and allowing the story to cost you something

31
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B’s main line

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“Only he who believes is obedient and he who is obedient believes

32
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The way in which we approach the world

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Technology; reality is shaped by devices and technology alleviates the claims made on your life

33
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Statements about technology

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  • we become masters of the world
  • we are programmed to think if something makes a claim on us its a problem and it can be fixed
  • unlike technology, there its nothing quick, easy, or cheap in our faith (if there is, you’re doing it wrong)
34
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Celebration and grace

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You can’t celebrate deeply unless a costly claim is made on you. Cheap grace is fun, but it can’t be celebrated

35
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Facts about Bonhoeffer

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Lutheran pastor
4 degrees in theology (2 drs) before age 25
Studied theology in the US, went back to Germany
executed by nazis in plot to kill hitler

36
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Cheap grace vs. costly grace chart

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Cheap: grace we give ourselves
forgiveness without repentance
baptism without discipline 
communion without confession 
without discipleship 
without the cross
without Jesus 
(costly is all with, grace bestowed by God; must be practiced)
37
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**Smith wants the reader of How Not to be Secular to know…

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the “feel” of the secular age

38
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**the primary characteristic of a secular age

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presence of competing narratives

39
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**Smith describes the secular age as

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cross-pressured

40
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**Which secular definition is the one we are living in now?

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Secular 3

41
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**According to B, what is a characteristic of cheap grace

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grace we bestow upon ourselves

42
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**What is a characteristic of technology in the late modern era

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It suggests we can be free by mastering our circumstances

43
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** The subtle process by which our world and hence the real of significance is enclosed within the material universe and the natural world

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Immanentization

44
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**2 ways to engage a secular age

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Take

Spin

45
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*Liturgy

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Service

46
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**B: “When Christ calls a man…

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“he bids him come and die”

47
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**When we pursue cheap, quick, easy lives, we lose our ability to

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celebrate

48
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**When could Peter see the feast

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When he joined the liturgy of NL

49
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**Why was Maggie able to remember her home and recognize her dad when jack couldnt

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She practiced the liturgy of home by singing songs her mom taught her

50
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**Smith’s quote about the secular age

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“I don’t believe in God, but I miss him”

51
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**secular people

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still want the feeling of transcendence

52
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**What does a liturgy do

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**Draws one into and roots one into a particular narrative

53
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**Pervasive technology suggests to us that

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we don’t have to be claimed by anything

Christian Tradition (6 decks)

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